Protest

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• SOURCE: The China Story
  12/19/2022
  

  China's 2022: Protest, Ceremony, and Surprise

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and William Yang

  China's recent oscillations between official ceremonies of authority and insurgent protests presents a complex picture of a Chinese Communist Party struggling to maintain authority despite its formidable mechanisms of surveillance and coercion. 

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• SOURCE: The China Project
  12/7/2022
  

  The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement

  by James Carter

  An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/24/2022
  

  Despite Defeat, Iran's Footballers Won

  by Golnar Nikpour

  Iranian players' show of solidarity with protesters facing government repression has been more important than the results on the pitch. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/1/2022
  

  For Chinese Protesters, Blank Pages are the Punch Line. What's the Joke?

  by Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  To understand the current Chinese protests, consider the nation's traditions of creative, surreptitious, and subversive political humor. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/5/2022
  

  Two Years After George Floyd: What Next?

  by Austin McCoy

  Despite the massive insurgency of 2020, activists struggle as news media amplify reactionary moral panics about history curricula and crime to justify increasing the funding and power of police departments that have seen superficial reforms at best. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/28/2022
  

  Recovering the Core Radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Glenda Gilmore

  by Robert Greene II

  Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  The Chicano Moratorium in East LA and Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Chicano Moratorium commemorations continue today in communities in and out of East Los Angeles as they mark a history that centers on the experience of ethnic Mexican and Latinx peoples in the US to inspire and reinspire the young and old, to continue their struggle to realize the ideal of justice for all.

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/24/2022
  

  Historian Donna Murch on the Long History that Led to BLM

  "In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  5/23/2022
  

  Virginia's Governor Took Away the Most Important Piece of Protest Art in the Country. What Should He Have Done?

  Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting). 

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• 5/15/2022
  

  Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy

  by Gwangju Democratization Movement Commemoration Committee

  Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  5/3/2022
  

  Protest Can – And Should – Influence the Supreme Court

  by Eric Stoner

  Direct action is the only way to push the court's majority more into line with the will of the majority of the public. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/1/2022
  

  How Protesters Pushed Jimmy Carter to Support Disability Rights

  by Matthew Rozsa

  While Carter campaigned on pledges to support the demands of the disabled for fuller participation in American society, he didn't fulfill those problems without a strong push from protesters in the movement. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/27/2022
  

  The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy

  by Meaghan Winter

  It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction. 

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• SOURCE: NBCUniversal
  4/14/2022
  

  Video: When a Protester Hit Anita Bryant with a Cream Pie in 1977

  "Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/2/2022
  

  A Bizarre War on Protest By Republican Judges

  "If protest leaders can be hauled into court — and potentially forced to pay out of their own pockets — for the actions of a single protest attendee, then no sensible person will organize a protest."

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/26/2022
  

  The History of Tying Up Traffic for Protest

  by David Greenberg

  More militant leaders in the Black freedom movement advocated obstructing traffic on a large scale as an expanded form of nonviolent direct action; the tensions these plans provoked in the movement show that there are seldom clear principles for which movement tactics are legitimate, outside of our opinions of their goals. 

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• SOURCE: Editorial Board
  2/17/2022
  

  The Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" Takes Inspiration from a Biblical Account of a Divine Massacre

  by Thomas Lecaque

  The Ottawa truck protests featured a contingent of "Jericho Marchers" who are increasingly prominent on the Christian far right. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/16/2022
  

  When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch

  In 1968, real life imitated "Batman" as the Catwoman actress broke the veneer of politeness at a luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson to denounce the war against Vietnam. But while Catwoman always got away, Kitt's career was destroyed for a decade.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  2/16/2022
  

  The Paranoid Style Comes to Canadian Politics

  by Eric Merkley

  Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.